Were I a being with the capability of emotion, I’d be quite angry right now. Alas, Fortunately I am not capable of such frivolities, so I shall just have to be completely and empirically correct instead, Shan’t I?
Edsger Dijkstra, on a regular day, was a Highly influential and super awesome computer scientist who did prolific work in mathematics and computing. On these regular days, Dijkstra is a rightful hero to me. However, amongst his many awesome quotes, I feel I must address a certain one:
In College – The UK Non-University College – I’ve recently been asked to deliver a group presentation to my tutor group. For character building or something; most important for somebody studying computing.
Anywho, whilst my team are probably racking their mind over what they can actually do a presentation, I’m working furiously on ideas for presentations that would be funny/unique but ultimately stupid. Here’s what I have so far:
I concur; A public blog may not be the normal choice of confessional location, but I feel that this problem I will not fix this problem if the confession is merely muttered to myself, or told to god; which is the same thing, to me at least. So here it goes:
I’m not a very consistent blogger
The big console news at E3 This year was of course the Wii U
image from http://www.randomprodinc.com/
Watching the unveiling, It seemed the crowd was somewhat reluctant to applaud at first, though admittedly not many people would congratulate an assortment of words from a very young child’s vocabulary as the chosen name for a console. But fine, I imagine we’re all able to look beyond Nintendo’s Rather Accomplished “Terrible Name Department”
The Developer response to the announcement of the Wii U was indeed spectacular, and if I were here to represent my Nintendo-hating bias, would accuse them of pumping concentrated oxygen into the convention rooms, to explain the almost mechanical giddiness of the developers.
